bleak

As recently as last weekend, the situation looked bleak.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Enniskillen Foodbank said their "ongoing expenses are continuing and donations are not keeping pace" with project manager Paul Dickson describing it as it a "bleak situation".

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

“The nature of these layoffs are so bleak that it seems as though our executives don’t see a way forward,” said Ariane Lange, an investigative reporter at the Sacramento Bee.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

It is a bleak little consumer triumph: the system has managed to make a moral improvement feel exactly like the thing it replaced.

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026

So standing there in that bleak and empty garden listening to Ob make May alive again, that seemed to fix something in me that had needed fixing ever since the funeral.

From "Missing May" by Cynthia Rylant

We once caught in an hour 6000 fishes like bleaks.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Robert Kerr

For young Americans, though, the job landscape was much bleaker.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026

Trust me when I say it was even bleaker than that sounds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

Last month, the multilateral lender's World Economic Outlook predicted global growth would drop to 3.1 percent in 2026 in its "reference" scenario, but warned of a bleaker outlook if the war were to drag on.

From Barron's ● May 14, 2026

However, Arsenal themselves have a much bleaker record as they've been top at Christmas four times before but have never gone on to lift the trophy.

From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2025

That same day, however, he wrote John a private and far bleaker letter.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

Tenured professors doubling as groundskeepers at a $70,000-a-year private college in New England is another sign of what is shaping up as the bleakest era for America’s smaller private schools.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

A dark comedy is only as successful as its bleakest jokes.

From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2026

When I graduated from UC–Berkeley with my “useless” comparative literature degree, into one of the bleakest job markets in recent American memory, I thought to myself, There must be a loophole somewhere.

From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2026

Fender is one of our finest songwriters, with a sharp eye for detail and a heartland rock style that turn even the bleakest observations into rousing stadium anthems.

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2025

I was twenty-one years old and had been locked up for a year already—the bleakest year of my life—and I had more time ahead of me.

From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos